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Lucy
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Wildlife Garden for Kids
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~encouraging wildlife
into kids gardens provides a rich natural environment for both the plants
and garden animals as well as the kids to study and explore garden science
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| How
to Create a Wildlife Refuge in your Backyard Garden |
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| Creating
a Backyard Wildlife habitat |
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Trees |
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Kids can easily create a backyard wildlife habitat
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a Wildlife Refuge for your local garden animals, insects,
butterflies, birds and bees takes only a few easy steps and is very rewarding
for any little kid gardener
~ Creating a Wild
Flower Meadow with gadening for kids
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If you have a large enough backyard then trees are a welcome addition providing
shelter and breeding space for many garden animal species
~ Fruittrees can be grown for the benefit of both humans and animals, although
it can be hard at times to actually harvest the produce as birds seem to
get in first every time in our garden :-) |
| Protecting
Your Wildlife Garden |
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when you have created your wildlife garden you need to ensure that it is
portected and can sustain itself
~ there are lots of animals that distorube the natural balance like squirrels
who dont give the birds a chance to get to the bird feeders you provide
~ a few tips on protecting your backyard wildlife habitat |
| Organic
Gardening for Kids |
Wildlife
Garden for Kids - Organic Vegetables
~ in nature there are no nasty chemicals and pesticides that disturbe the
balance of a wildlife environment
~ When gardening for kids and gardening with children of all ages encouraging
them to garden organically is a first step in teaching about the protection
about our local environment
~ Organic vegetable gardening produces lovely natural crops in season and
with the use of comapnion planting and permaculture approaches and Kid Garden
can stay an organic garden which is ideal for a backyard wildlife habitat |
| Wildlife
Safari |
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Maya and I live in Europe and our wildlife tends to be smaller speciaes
of mammals , insects and varying bees , birds and butterflies
~ there are a few garden snakes and newts, froags, toads and lizards
~ But what if you are living on the other side of the world - what does
your wildlife habitat look like?
~ Can you spot giraffes and elephants from your home window?
~ are Zebras and Rhinos a common sight?
~ or can the polarbear be spotted near your home when you take a walk outdoors?
~ A Wildlife Safari Vacation or even a vistit to a wildlife sanctuary
can really open up your kids eyes the the beautiful creatures on our planet
~ Create your own Wildlife Safari in your backyard - kids will love
to be an explorer for a day |
| Endangered
Plants |
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There are many endangered plants, which often we are not even aware off
that they are endangered
~ In our graden grows a species of orchid that apparently is endangered
and until we became aware of it we did not even notice this tiny plant
~ Learn how to keep endangered plants alive and what you and your
kids can do to encourage your local endangered plants to survive |
| Endangered
Animals |
Wildlife
Garden for Kids - Garden Animals
~ Native to us are newts, the crested Newt being a very beautiful species
living near garden ponds
~ These animal are endangered but Maya and I have created lots of little
backyard wildlife habitats that support the protection of the newt habitat
~ Even in a Kid Garden you can teach young children how to be aware of the
endangered species of animals, how to indentify them and what steps
to take to maybe provide them a little home in your backyard garden |
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